Resources

Museum Resources

The National Museum has an unparalleled permanent collection of more than 60,000 artifacts related to the Japanese American experience. In 1999, the HNRC was established to provide access to its collection through books, videos, DVDs, periodicals, WRA
database, and electronic card catalog. The microfilm collection consists of the WRA Final Accountibility Roster, camp newspapers
like the Manzanar Free Press, immigration records from San Francisco and Seattle ports, vernacular newspapers like The Rafu Shimpo, Kashu Mainichi, Hokubei Mainichi,
and Nichi Bei Times, as well as the Japanese American Citizen League’s periodical Pacific Citizen. Binders of alphabetical immigrant names that traveled
from Japan to the United States through the ports of San Francisco, Seattle, Oregon, Hawaii and San Pedro are also available.

Bibliography prepared by the Hirasaki National Resource Center
for the 20th Anniversary of H.R. 442-Civil Liberties Act of 1988. In addition to books on Japanese American redress, it includes additional resources in these categories: Japanese Canadian redress, Alaska’s Aleuts redress, railroad workers’ redress, Japanese Peruvian redress, videos, young readers’ books, and Japanese language books.

Answer five multiple-choice questions related to the redress movement online by April 20, 2008 for a chance to win a special prize package! Don’t know much about the topic? Click on the link above to read the accompanying article and learn all you need to know.

DiscoverNikkei.org Resources

DiscoverNikkei.org is an award-winning Web project of the Japanese American National Museum that provides an interactive global space for Nikkei-related community and personal stories through a variety of mediums including video interviews, articles, and photographs.

Real People Video Archives
Video clips from life history interviews related to the redress movement. More will be added over time.